Hot on the heels of our 20th anniversary last year, this time we commemorate reaching vol.81, just like the name of our magazine +81 by covering one creator each from vol.1 through 80. We revisit with these 80 artists, compiling the old pages featuring them along with their ...

Collaboration is a perennial practice in fields like fashion, art, design, products, and music, but over the last few years we’ve seen cross-profession collabs expand to other arenas like dining, lodging facilities, and spaces as well. So, in this issue we interview three creators who...

This feature on the theme of letter design is actually our previous typography issue in four years and a half. We have four categories this time, from “fashion” typography both subtle and bold to handmade “sign painting” full of personality, creative “art&rdquo...

Remarkable advances in digital technology have made creative se lf-expression a much closer part of everyone’ s life, while sharing information and communicating via SNS are now pretty much a given. In this issue, we introduc e 44 talented, up-and-coming creators we think likely to...

Here at +81, we have done the issues that related the motion pictures several times in the past, but this marks our first time addressing all realms of creativity linked to films. Movies have become a massive entertainment industry over the course of the 120 years since the birth of the ...

A Nikon 100th Anniversary Award with the theme, Celebration, was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Nikon's establishment for this, the 36th Nikon Photo Contest. In addition to the Nikon 100th Anniversary Award, entries were also accepted in the Next Generation and Open c...

We have devoted this entire issue to the creativity of Comme des Garçons, offering our own distinctive introduction to the entrancingly innovative visual world of her iconic DMs, ad imagery, and of course the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between exhibition ...

In recent years we have seen several instances where it seemed as if there was a distrust or doubt towards graphic design, so we can’ t help but feel there is a sort of disillusionment with design in the world today. We at +81 have watched over visual cultures in Japan and the rest...